A new PC purchase is probably also a new Intel CPU purchase. At this critical moment, when Intel needs to rid itself of all its inventory of defective chips. Hmm....
Do you have a link with more information about this? I have an AM2+ board that I used regularly until last month - may still use it if I find another use for it - and I definitely recall weird problems with booting and USB. It *did* boot off USB drives, just not consistently. I also remember being unable to boot if certain devices (wi-fi adapter) were plugged in. It'd be interesting to know after all this time: (1) That I wasn't crazy, (2) What the problem actually was.
I think it'd be a good idea to start calling them Smart Microphones instead. Certainly, for the people who sell it, the microphone is the primary feature. The speaker serves a similar function to a loss leader - a sweetener necessary to get people to buy it.
I mean, I guess they can push ads with the speaker too.
Insightful a.f... I felt that the iPhone X was Apple jumping the shark, but to put that in historical context, especially from the perspective of a former iPhone diehard... Bravo. You can bet Apple's going to turn hard towards monetizing everything, ever more planned obsolescence and other shitty practices to keep shareholders fed with the money they're used to. Gotta keep the slope on that graph steep enough. It will likely be a slow decline for Apple, but this is the beginning, and these are the forces that will drive it.
It's because addiction can take many forms. There are many ways to trigger addiction-facilitating responses in the brain, without the use of drugs. The fact that some people use addiction as an excuse to absolve them of their bad decisions has zero bearing on that.
You also seem to be confusing "nobody cares" with "there's no problem". But the fact is there are plenty of people who care. The science regarding phone/social media addiction is still in its infancy since it's not an issue our society has dealt with for very long at all. But there have already been studies linking, for example, screen time and suicide rates.
You seem to be confused about what's being proposed here, because "forceful intervention" doesn't describe any part of it. What's proposed is for Apple to develop software that lets parents who have chosen of their own volition to limit their own kids' screen time, to do so. The people proposing this are Apple shareholders - part-owners of the company.
I'm curious what differentiates these low-tech schools from normal schools. I graduated high school 10 years ago, and we were taught computer skills in computer courses, which would typically take about an hour each day. Things like basic video editing, basic HTML. In our other classes, we'd often have to type up our papers in Word or make a slideshow in PowerPoint to go with our presentation. (After many years of hand-writing those things to get penmanship skills.) Technology was present and utilized, but it wasn't thrown around unnecessarily - no iPad on every desk. Pencil and paper worked fine for your geometry worksheets.
What is it that these low-tech schools do differently?
There are people who think that kids spending all day on the phone might not be healthy. Some of these people are rich. You did get that part straight. The part you didn't get straight is when you assumed that someone is telling someone else how to run their life. What's being proposed is for Apple to put software on their phones to facilitate parents who, on their own, make the decision to limit their kids' screen time.
They buy it for the kids because the kids want toys. For the youngest ones that don't need actual phone functionality, and for whom big, bright, and shiny is the main draw, they often go with a tablet.
I'd be interested to see if there are any good (emphasis on good) statistics being tabulated about the age distribution of tablet users. Because from what I see (n=6) around half of them are kids, young kids, the under-12 crowd. But since it's the adult that buys it, I don't see any easy way to keep track. I sure as hell don't expect Apple to release any unflattering statistics.
You should plug back into dear leader's Twitter feed, your trolling skills could use a touch-up. I heard he's recently allocated more time in his schedule for Fox News and social media, you should have plenty more examples to follow.
Strangely enough, my power didn't go out. (It was out for a full two weeks following Ike.) I am aware of the wind-up radios, which are probably the most ideal. But it's not like alkaline batteries are expensive or have a short shelf-life. I'd have them stored in the hurricane kit, if I were responsible enough to make one. TBH it's probably time to responsible-up... Given that there were two "500 year" flooding events and an "800 year" flooding event in 3 years, I expect to deal with a lot more of this.
For a lot of people - about a third to a half of the US population, and the vast majority worldwide - it's less about "where do I want to work" and more about "where I am able/allowed to work". Many of the available options are stacked with stupids from top to bottom - you might be waiting until you starve to find a place without stupid people somewhere... either in HR, in management, in the trenches, or all three. And you can't discern the full extent of the stupid before you're on the inside.
"The thing" you render inoperable with a knife will be the whole radio/nav/driver information system. Which, on modern cars, might also be the entire instrument panel. It wouldn't surprise me that it, in turn, stops the vehicle from running at all.
And at that point, I might just have to turn into a car enthusiast to build my own kit car, or keep one from 30 years ago running.
I hope not.
Back in August I was islanded in my apartment for 3 days after Hurricane Harvey encircled it with water. Mobile networks were down. I have no satellite receiver in my home, and it wouldn't work in a hurricane anyway. No digital receivers either. But I did have two analog radios at my disposal - a phone with an FM tuner, and an old-style boombox. Not because I had went out and bought them in anticipation of the storm, but because they were already there and had been for years. As is the case in most people's homes, cars, workplaces, etc. Without the FM radios there would have been nothing.
Sometimes the most marginal use cases are also the most important. But even with the typical scenario - listening to music in the car - FM performs admirably. (Better than the compression artifacts on Sirius/XM actually. But that's a failure of their particular implementation, not satellite radio generally.)
The problem is that Linus doesn't quite have the maverick cachet that Gates, Jobs, or Musk do. Torvalds has equal or better technical chops but he divorced himself from "the rat race" for lack of a better term. Jobs was the rock star, filling stadiums with screaming fans. Torvalds is the street performer who plays a little better but didn't care enough about gratuitous adulation or "being #1" to make it to the stadium.
Some people see this and call him irrelevant. They feel that he shouldn't be allowed an opinion, or that it should be worth less, because he's not on the Forbes list. Thankfully, they take a more objective, impersonal assessment when it comes time to choose which OS to run on their servers. ...Most of them anyway. I guess there's a few swayed by MS or Apple salesmen.
It's really a consequence of people insisting on using foreign terms without fully comprehending the meaning. Sometimes that ends up as a tattoo with the Chinese character for "giraffe stool". Sometimes you get "dog dog" as a meme. Sometimes you SHINE GET.
No, intrinsic value means "I can burn these dollar bills to kindle a fire" or "I can melt these coins down and make nails out of them". The exchange value is extrinsic - it comes from outside the currency itself. It comes from the other man who is willing to trade for them.
As the leader of the world's most powerful military, I think the President's agency is a little more consequential than a random Palestinian's. I make no excuses for Palestinians who want to screw up Palestinian affairs. (Whether that's what was happening with the protest is another question, which is irrelevant here.) But I make even less excuses for an American who wants to screw up Palestinian affairs. If the President didn't understand that his tweet would probably lead directly to Palestinian and Israeli deaths (not to mention the long-term geopolitical fallout), he needs to be replaced by someone competent. If he didn't care, he needs to be replaced by someone responsible.
I've noticed the Trump apologists like to draw comparisons between Trump and the bottom of the barrel - random Palestinian farmers, dipshit celebrities, internet trolls. Our leaders need to be held to a higher standard and their agency needs to be used to better effect than those guys. Until that happens, the country's long decline will only be accelerated.
Sure, you can skip reading the tweets. I do; I've never used the site at all. And if he was just another Twitter troll who could be ignored by staying away from that cesspool, that would be super. The problem is, he is the President of the United States. Ignoring the ramifications of what he does - yes, including on Twitter - isn't really possible if you have to live in the US. Or outside of it, for that matter. Trump tweets about moving the capital of Israel and the next day there are protests in the streets. The body count for that tweet was, I believe, 4 dead Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the alt-right talks about "trolling skills" and pretends it's beyond their comprehension why these people hate America. I couldn't think of a more plain example of the concerns these guys have, and the degree of critical thinking they do. Which are respectively: Nothing important, and none whatsoever.
I'd qualify the compression used for SiriusXM as pretty terrible. For some types of music it's listenable, but for others - trap music with the rapid hi-hats for example - totally ruined.
I haven't tested Opus yet, it's been years since I looked into all the different codecs in detail. But the consensus seems to be that it does very well at 64 kb/s. It's open-source and I'm sure you can find binaries for your platform of choice to perform your own tests.
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A new PC purchase is probably also a new Intel CPU purchase. At this critical moment, when Intel needs to rid itself of all its inventory of defective chips. Hmm....
There's a whole lot of bad intentions behind Windows 10, but ruining your machine isn't one of them.
Do you have a link with more information about this? I have an AM2+ board that I used regularly until last month - may still use it if I find another use for it - and I definitely recall weird problems with booting and USB. It *did* boot off USB drives, just not consistently. I also remember being unable to boot if certain devices (wi-fi adapter) were plugged in. It'd be interesting to know after all this time: (1) That I wasn't crazy, (2) What the problem actually was.
It hears everything, not just what you tell it.
I think it'd be a good idea to start calling them Smart Microphones instead. Certainly, for the people who sell it, the microphone is the primary feature. The speaker serves a similar function to a loss leader - a sweetener necessary to get people to buy it.
I mean, I guess they can push ads with the speaker too.
Insightful a.f... I felt that the iPhone X was Apple jumping the shark, but to put that in historical context, especially from the perspective of a former iPhone diehard... Bravo. You can bet Apple's going to turn hard towards monetizing everything, ever more planned obsolescence and other shitty practices to keep shareholders fed with the money they're used to. Gotta keep the slope on that graph steep enough. It will likely be a slow decline for Apple, but this is the beginning, and these are the forces that will drive it.
It's because addiction can take many forms. There are many ways to trigger addiction-facilitating responses in the brain, without the use of drugs. The fact that some people use addiction as an excuse to absolve them of their bad decisions has zero bearing on that.
You also seem to be confusing "nobody cares" with "there's no problem". But the fact is there are plenty of people who care. The science regarding phone/social media addiction is still in its infancy since it's not an issue our society has dealt with for very long at all. But there have already been studies linking, for example, screen time and suicide rates.
You seem to be confused about what's being proposed here, because "forceful intervention" doesn't describe any part of it. What's proposed is for Apple to develop software that lets parents who have chosen of their own volition to limit their own kids' screen time, to do so. The people proposing this are Apple shareholders - part-owners of the company.
I'm curious what differentiates these low-tech schools from normal schools. I graduated high school 10 years ago, and we were taught computer skills in computer courses, which would typically take about an hour each day. Things like basic video editing, basic HTML. In our other classes, we'd often have to type up our papers in Word or make a slideshow in PowerPoint to go with our presentation. (After many years of hand-writing those things to get penmanship skills.) Technology was present and utilized, but it wasn't thrown around unnecessarily - no iPad on every desk. Pencil and paper worked fine for your geometry worksheets.
What is it that these low-tech schools do differently?
There are people who think that kids spending all day on the phone might not be healthy. Some of these people are rich. You did get that part straight.
The part you didn't get straight is when you assumed that someone is telling someone else how to run their life. What's being proposed is for Apple to put software on their phones to facilitate parents who, on their own, make the decision to limit their kids' screen time.
They buy it for the kids because the kids want toys. For the youngest ones that don't need actual phone functionality, and for whom big, bright, and shiny is the main draw, they often go with a tablet.
I'd be interested to see if there are any good (emphasis on good) statistics being tabulated about the age distribution of tablet users. Because from what I see (n=6) around half of them are kids, young kids, the under-12 crowd. But since it's the adult that buys it, I don't see any easy way to keep track. I sure as hell don't expect Apple to release any unflattering statistics.
You should plug back into dear leader's Twitter feed, your trolling skills could use a touch-up. I heard he's recently allocated more time in his schedule for Fox News and social media, you should have plenty more examples to follow.
Strangely enough, my power didn't go out. (It was out for a full two weeks following Ike.) I am aware of the wind-up radios, which are probably the most ideal. But it's not like alkaline batteries are expensive or have a short shelf-life. I'd have them stored in the hurricane kit, if I were responsible enough to make one. TBH it's probably time to responsible-up... Given that there were two "500 year" flooding events and an "800 year" flooding event in 3 years, I expect to deal with a lot more of this.
For a lot of people - about a third to a half of the US population, and the vast majority worldwide - it's less about "where do I want to work" and more about "where I am able/allowed to work". Many of the available options are stacked with stupids from top to bottom - you might be waiting until you starve to find a place without stupid people somewhere... either in HR, in management, in the trenches, or all three. And you can't discern the full extent of the stupid before you're on the inside.
And you can be damn sure I'll play "Red Barchetta" every time I take it out.
"The thing" you render inoperable with a knife will be the whole radio/nav/driver information system. Which, on modern cars, might also be the entire instrument panel. It wouldn't surprise me that it, in turn, stops the vehicle from running at all.
And at that point, I might just have to turn into a car enthusiast to build my own kit car, or keep one from 30 years ago running.
I hope not.
Back in August I was islanded in my apartment for 3 days after Hurricane Harvey encircled it with water. Mobile networks were down. I have no satellite receiver in my home, and it wouldn't work in a hurricane anyway. No digital receivers either. But I did have two analog radios at my disposal - a phone with an FM tuner, and an old-style boombox. Not because I had went out and bought them in anticipation of the storm, but because they were already there and had been for years. As is the case in most people's homes, cars, workplaces, etc. Without the FM radios there would have been nothing.
Sometimes the most marginal use cases are also the most important. But even with the typical scenario - listening to music in the car - FM performs admirably. (Better than the compression artifacts on Sirius/XM actually. But that's a failure of their particular implementation, not satellite radio generally.)
As far as I'm aware you can't do any of that in Bitcoin specifically. Other blockchain systems, yes.
The problem is that Linus doesn't quite have the maverick cachet that Gates, Jobs, or Musk do. Torvalds has equal or better technical chops but he divorced himself from "the rat race" for lack of a better term. Jobs was the rock star, filling stadiums with screaming fans. Torvalds is the street performer who plays a little better but didn't care enough about gratuitous adulation or "being #1" to make it to the stadium.
...Most of them anyway. I guess there's a few swayed by MS or Apple salesmen.
Some people see this and call him irrelevant. They feel that he shouldn't be allowed an opinion, or that it should be worth less, because he's not on the Forbes list. Thankfully, they take a more objective, impersonal assessment when it comes time to choose which OS to run on their servers.
Would it be more correct to call it systemd/Linux?
It's really a consequence of people insisting on using foreign terms without fully comprehending the meaning. Sometimes that ends up as a tattoo with the Chinese character for "giraffe stool". Sometimes you get "dog dog" as a meme. Sometimes you SHINE GET.
No, intrinsic value means "I can burn these dollar bills to kindle a fire" or "I can melt these coins down and make nails out of them". The exchange value is extrinsic - it comes from outside the currency itself. It comes from the other man who is willing to trade for them.
As the leader of the world's most powerful military, I think the President's agency is a little more consequential than a random Palestinian's. I make no excuses for Palestinians who want to screw up Palestinian affairs. (Whether that's what was happening with the protest is another question, which is irrelevant here.) But I make even less excuses for an American who wants to screw up Palestinian affairs. If the President didn't understand that his tweet would probably lead directly to Palestinian and Israeli deaths (not to mention the long-term geopolitical fallout), he needs to be replaced by someone competent. If he didn't care, he needs to be replaced by someone responsible.
I've noticed the Trump apologists like to draw comparisons between Trump and the bottom of the barrel - random Palestinian farmers, dipshit celebrities, internet trolls. Our leaders need to be held to a higher standard and their agency needs to be used to better effect than those guys. Until that happens, the country's long decline will only be accelerated.
Sure, you can skip reading the tweets. I do; I've never used the site at all. And if he was just another Twitter troll who could be ignored by staying away from that cesspool, that would be super. The problem is, he is the President of the United States. Ignoring the ramifications of what he does - yes, including on Twitter - isn't really possible if you have to live in the US. Or outside of it, for that matter. Trump tweets about moving the capital of Israel and the next day there are protests in the streets. The body count for that tweet was, I believe, 4 dead Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the alt-right talks about "trolling skills" and pretends it's beyond their comprehension why these people hate America. I couldn't think of a more plain example of the concerns these guys have, and the degree of critical thinking they do. Which are respectively: Nothing important, and none whatsoever.
I'd qualify the compression used for SiriusXM as pretty terrible. For some types of music it's listenable, but for others - trap music with the rapid hi-hats for example - totally ruined.
I haven't tested Opus yet, it's been years since I looked into all the different codecs in detail. But the consensus seems to be that it does very well at 64 kb/s. It's open-source and I'm sure you can find binaries for your platform of choice to perform your own tests.